Sun Yat-sen University

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with Sun Yat-sen University*

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Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theoretical developments and directions. Special issue of Functions of Language 28:3 (2021)

Edited by Wendy L. Bowcher & Tom Bartlett

Subjects Corpus linguistics | Discourse studies | Functional linguistics | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

[Functions of Language, 28:3] 2021. | special issue

van Eemeren, Frans H., Bart Garssen & Yun Xie 2026 For your own good: A replication of hidden fallaciousness research

Keywords: argumentum ad baculum | experimental research | fallacy | Freedom Rule | hidden fallaciousness | Pragma-Dialectics

Journal of Argumentation in Context | Online First Publication, 21 pp. | article

Qi, Jinxin 2026 From wilderness to wonderland: Bridging anthropocentrism and ecocentrism in the translation of The Swiss Family Robinson during late Qing China

Keywords: anthropocentrism | ecocentrism | ecocritical translation | late Qing China

Target 38:2 pp. 234–259 | article

Bi, Yuanhao 2025 The grammar of proper names in Classical Tibetan

Keywords: Classical Tibetan | proper names | noun phrase | morphosyntax | typology

Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 pp. 34–62 | article

Yan, Niting & Huayong Lin 2025 閩南方言中「遘」的語法化與主觀化: 以永春方言為例 [The grammaticalization and subjectivization of kau in Southern Min dialect]

Keywords: 語法化 | 主觀化 | 語義化 | 閩南方言 | grammaticalization | subjectivization | semanticization | Southern Min

Language and Linguistics 26:3 pp. 553–594 | article | open access

Chen, Yumin & Chang Yan 2024 Review of Language and characterisation in television series: A corpus-informed approach to the construction of social identity in the media by Monika Bednarek (2023)

Functions of Language 31:3 pp. 368–374 | book review

Long, Haiping & Weihua Zhou 2024 From affirmation to concession: Diachrony of Modern Chinese concessive connective kě shì (‘but’) and its implications for connective formation

Keywords: affirmation | concession | grammaticalisation | kě shì | rán

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:1 pp. 1–38 | article

Yue, Yan & Jing Fang 2024 The role of registerial expertise in texture re-creation in medical translation: Cohesion and coherence in the case of translating Huang Di Nei Jing

Keywords: registerial expertise | texture | cohesive harmony | medical translation | Huang Di Nei Jing

Language, Context and Text 6:2 pp. 418–444 | article

Shao, Mingyuan & Xuna Lin 2024 甘青語言區域漢語副動詞附綴「是」: 語義、句法和來源 [Sinitic converbal clitics shi in the Gan-Qing linguistic area]

Keywords: 甘青語言區域 | 甘青漢語方言 | 副動詞 | 限定性 | 語言接觸 | Gan-Qing Linguistic area | Gan-Qing Chinese | converbs | finiteness | language contact

Language and Linguistics 25:3 pp. 497–534 | article | open access

Huang, Yanxuan, Ruiling Huang & Jiaying Huang 2024 From negative to conjunctive: 無 bo⁵⁵ in the Jieyang Southern Min dialect

Keywords: 無 bo55 | negative | conjunctive | grammaticalization | Jieyang Southern Min dialect

Language and Linguistics 25:4 pp. 615–643 | article | open access

Jinquan, Yu 2023 Review of Translating Asymmetry-Rewriting Power edited by Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés & Esther Monzó-Nebot (2021)

Babel 69:1 pp. 147–152 | book review

Li, Meizi 2023 Review of Korean grammar: A systemic functional approach by Mira Kim, J. R. Martin, Gi-Hyun Shin & Gyung Hee Choi (2023)

Functions of Language 30:3 pp. 360–365 | book review

Liu, Ming & Yanxi Lu 2023 Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal: A critical discourse analysis of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional hearings

Keywords: blame | blame-avoiding strategies | critical discourse analysis | Facebook | Mark Zuckerberg | digital corporations

Pragmatics and Society 15:3 pp. 471–494 | article

Shao, Mingyuan & Xuna Lin 2023 Converbs of Sinitic varieties in Qīnghǎi‑Gānsù linguistic area

Keywords: converbs | Qīng-Gān linguistic area | Sinitic languages | morphosyntactic

Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 38:1 pp. 14–40 | article

Elbaz, Pascale & Jun Miao 2023 Le lexique du wen (culture) dans le discours politique chinois et dans sa traduction française au prisme de la textométrie

Keywords: culture | discours politique | traduction | terminologie | outils textométriques | culture | political discourse | translation | terminology | textometric tools

FORUM 21:1 pp. 25–50 | article

Liang Lisi 2022 Review of Subtitling: Concepts and Practices edited by Jorge Díaz Cintas & Aline Remael (2021)

Babel 69:2 pp. 301–304 | book review

Zou, Hui & Chenguang Chang 2022 Review of Accessing academic discourse: Systemic Functional Linguistics and Legitimation Code Theory edited by J.R. Martin, Karl Maton & Y.J. Doran (2020)

Functions of Language 29:3 pp. 350–356 | book review

Heine, Bernd & Haiping Long 2022 Review of Discourse structuring markers in English: A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics by Elizabeth Closs Traugott (2022)

Functions of Language 29:3 pp. 338–343 | book review

Wang Yuechen 2022 A war triggered by translation: From Bible translation to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in nineteenth-century China

Keywords: biblical translation | China | the Taiping Rebellion | reception | traduction de la Bible | Chine | la rébellion de Taiping | reception

Babel 68:5 pp. 723–741 | article

Long, Haiping & Chuanlin Deng 2022 Do ‘say’ verbs really grammaticalize into complementizers through clause combination?: Evidence from Chinese shuō ‘say’

Keywords: ‘say’ verb | shuō | complementizer | quotative particle

Functions of Language 30:2 pp. 137–158 | article

Liang, Lisi 2023 How COVID-19 changes the way we approach pedagogy for translation

Keywords: pedagogy for translation | subtitling | translation technology | transcreated subtitles

The Journal of Internationalization and Localization 9:2 pp. 230–252 | article

Kazemian, Reza & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2022 Aspects of væ (‘and’) as a discourse marker in Persian

Keywords: væ discourse marker | DM co-occurrence | Pragmatic functions | Multifunctionality

Pragmatics 32:4 pp. 588–619 | article | open access

Long, Haiping, Xianhui Wang & Lei Wang 2022 Formation of Modern Chinese speech-quotative nǐ shuō ‘you say’ and feedback-seeking nǐ shuō ‘you tell me’: Two grammaticalizational pathways

Keywords: nǐ shuō | quotative | feedback-seeking | complementation | conjoining

Language and Linguistics 23:4 pp. 743–777 | article | open access

Zhu, Lili 2022 Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media: A case study of Sino-US trade dispute

Keywords: frames | critical discourse analysis | cognitive linguistics | Sino-US trade dispute | communication

Journal of Language and Politics 21:6 pp. 867–889 | article

Huang, Yanxuan & Dongfang Wen 2022 粵東閩語揭陽方言「著[tioʔ⁵]」的多功能性及其語法化: 兼論粵東閩客接觸現象 [The multifunctionality and grammaticalization of tioʔ⁵ 著 in the Jieyang Min dialect]

Keywords: 粵東閩語揭陽方言 | 「著」 | 語法化 | 半山客 | 語言接觸 | Jieyang Min dialect | tioʔ5 著 | grammaticalization | Banshan Hakka | language contact

Language and Linguistics 23:3 pp. 411–450 | article | open access

Bartlett, Tom & Wendy L. Bowcher 2021 Context in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Principles and parameters

Functions of Language 28:3 pp. 243–259 | introduction

Bowcher, Wendy L. 2021 Context of situation and the role of language

Functions of Language 28:3 pp. 315–341 | article

Heine, Bernd, Gunther Kaltenböck, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long 2021 On the rise of discourse markers

Keywords: cooptation | decategorialization | discourse grammar | discourse marker | grammaticalization | thetical

In: Studies at the Grammar-Discourse Interface: Discourse markers and discourse-related grammatical phenomena, Haselow, Alexander & Sylvie Hancil (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 219] pp. 23–56

Yoo, Eunson 2021 Korean causal markers ‑ese and ‑nikka in clause-initial and final positions in relation to the sequence of Mandarin Chinese yinwei

Keywords: preposed | postposed | forward reasoning | epistemic inference | elaboration | zero-marking

Language and Linguistics 22:4 pp. 661–689 | article | open access

Xu, Daozhi & Gary James Harfitt 2021 Teacher language awareness and scaffolded interaction in CLIL science classrooms

Keywords: Teacher language awareness | Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | scaffolding strategies | learners’ needs | science classrooms

In: Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms, Lo, Yuen Yi & Angel M.Y. Lin (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 115] pp. 63–83

Moradi, Hamzeh 2021 Professor Farzad Sharifian (1964–2020): Scholar and pioneer of cultural linguistics

Pragmatics and Society 12:1 pp. 1–5 | obituary

Ming Liu & Jingxue Ma 2021 The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations: A corpus-assisted discourse study

Keywords: protests | Hong Kong | corpus-assisted discourse study | emotion | fear

Journal of Language and Politics 21:1 pp. 37–59 | article

Ren Wen, Guo Cong & Huang Juan 2020 A review of 40 years of interpreting research in China (1978–2018)

Keywords: 40 years of interpreting research | China | overall | period-specific characteristics | 40 ans de recherche en interprétation | Chine | caractéristiques générales | caractéristiques propres à une période

Babel 66:1 pp. 1–28 | article

Li, Qiong & Yuying Wang 2020 Dialect and Putonghua in Xi’an city: The case of Beishan Menkou urban village

Keywords: Putonghua varieties | Xi’an dialect | Shaanxi dialects | Henan dialect | language and gender | Chinese language change | New Dialect | Local Putonghua

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 30:1/2 pp. 217–254 | article

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 2020 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part II)

Keywords: M. A. K. Halliday | interview | computational linguistics | machine translation | language teaching | language development | sociology | Basil Bernstein | social semiotics | Halliday in China

Language, Context and Text 2:1 pp. 187–207 | article

Long, Haiping, Fang Wu, Francesco Ursini & Zhijun Qin 2020 On the formation of a conjecturing clause-taking predicate in Modern Chinese: A conjoining account of huaiyi

Functions of Language 28:2 pp. 183–207 | article

Heine, Bernd, Tania Kuteva & Haiping Long 2020 Dual process frameworks on reasoning and linguistic discourse: A comparison

Keywords: analyzability | coherence | context | control | intuitive behavior | macrostructure | microstructure | reflective behavior

In: Grammar and Cognition: Dualistic models of language structure and language processing, Haselow, Alexander & Gunther Kaltenböck (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 70] pp. 59–89

Pan Hanting & Huang Limin 2020 Fernando Prieto Ramos (ed.). Institutional Translation for International Governance: Enhancing Quality in Multilingual Legal Communication

Babel 66:6 pp. 1033–1038 | book review

Mousavi, S. Hamzeh & Mohammad Amouzadeh 2020 ‘I hear the smell of roses’: Semantic aspects of synaesthetic constructions in Persian

Keywords: synaesthesia | Frame Semantics | senses | Construction Grammar | Persian

Review of Cognitive Linguistics 18:2 pp. 397–427 | article

Amouzadeh, Mohammad & Raha Zareifard 2020 Interactional metadiscourse of gender in Persian: The case of conference presentations

Keywords: gender | community of practice | conference presentation | interactional metadiscourse | core and peripheral members | professional identity | academic status

Pragmatics and Society 10:4 pp. 512–537 | article

Matthiessen, Christian M. I. M., Bo Wang & Yuanyi Ma 2019 Matthiessen on Halliday: An interview with Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen (Part I)1

Keywords: M. A. K. Halliday | appliable linguistics | Wang Li | J. R. Firth | Marxism | Chomskyan linguistics | phonetics | Chinese phonology | language description | typology

Language, Context and Text 1:2 pp. 366–387 | article

Xu, Daozhi & Gary James Harfitt 2019 Teacher language awareness and scaffolded interaction in CLIL science classrooms

Keywords: Teacher language awareness | Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | scaffolding strategies | learners’ needs | science classrooms

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 pp. 212–232 | article

Shao, Mingyuan 2019 古藏文的系動詞 [The copula verbs in Old Tibetan]

Keywords: 古藏文 | 系動詞 | 示證範疇 | 向自我 | 語法化 | Old Tibetan | copula | evidentiality | egophoric | grammaticalization

Language and Linguistics 20:3 pp. 417–450 | article | open access

Wu Xiaoping 2019 Yves Gambier and Sara Ramos Pinto (eds). Audiovisual translation: Theoretical and methodological challenges

Babel 65:2 pp. 333–336 | book review

Pan Hanting & Wang Yuechen 2018 Andrew Chesterman. Reflections on Translation Theory: Selected papers 1993–2014

Babel 64:2 pp. 326–333 | book review

Liu, Binmei, Pengpeng Feng, Qingtao Feng, Jihong Li & Yuping Li 2018 Language attitudes by university students in mainland China: Results of a survey in three cities

Keywords: language attitudes | high variety | low variety | integrative orientation | instrumental orientation

Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 28:2 pp. 345–368 | article

Long, Haiping 2018 On the Formation of Modern Chinese Pseudo-Possessive-Object Constructions

Keywords: Pseudo-Possessive-Object constructions | possessor-affectee syncretism | grammaticalization

Studies in Language 42:2 pp. 297–328 | article

Zhang, Meifang & Hanting Pan 2017 Institutional power in and behind discourse: A case study of SARS notices and their translations used in Macao

Keywords: discourse analysis | language | power | translation studies

In: Discourse Analysis in Translation Studies, Munday, Jeremy & Meifang Zhang (eds.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 94] pp. 63–81

Long, Haiping & Pengfei Kuang 2018 Modern Chinese confirmative shi : Auxiliary or adverb?

Functions of Language 24:3 pp. 294–318 | article

Sun, Peijian 2017 试析师生性格特征与口头纠正性反馈之间的关系 [Understanding the relationship between personality traits and oral corrective feedback from the perspectives of teachers and students]

Keywords: 师生性格 | 口头纠正性反馈 | 国际汉语教学 | 态度 | personality trait | oral corrective feedback | Chinese language teaching | attitude

Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報) 52:2 pp. 172–186 | article

Linqiong, Yan 2017 A pragma-dialectical approach to governmental crisis communication: The case of disputes over a proposed chemical project in mainland China

Keywords: governmental crisis discourse | pragma-dialectics | strategic maneuvering | institutional precondition | dialectical reasonableness | rhetorical effectiveness

Journal of Argumentation in Context 6:3 pp. 315–343 | article

Shao Lu 2018 Jiménez-Crespo, 2017. Crowdsourcing and Online Collaborative Translations: Expanding the Limits of Translation Studies

Babel 63:6 pp. 901–906 | book review

Liu, Ming 2017 “Contesting the Cynicism of Neoliberalism”: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Press Representations of the Sino-US Currency Dispute

Keywords: neoliberalism | currency dispute | critical discourse analysis | corpus-assisted discourse study | corpus linguistics

Journal of Language and Politics 16:2 pp. 242–263 | article

Chen, Shu-Kun 2016 Review of Personalisation in Mass Media Communication. British Online News between Public and Private by Daniela Landert (2014)

Pragmatics and Society 7:1 pp. 163–168 | book review

Pan, Hanting & Meifang Zhang 2016 Translating for a healthier gaming industry: Keywords and translation in Macao’s gaming discourse

Keywords: corpus | Macao | critical discourse analysis | gaming | discourse | translation shifts | framing | gambling

Translation Spaces 5:2 pp. 163–180 | article

Bowcher, Wendy L. 2015 An exceptional career, a lasting legacy: Professor Emeritus Ruqaiya Hasan (1931–2015)

Functions of Language 22:3 pp. 289–296 | article

Zhang, Meifang & Hanting Pan 2015 Institutional power in and behind discourse: A case study of SARS notices and their translations used in Macao

Keywords: discourse analysis | translation studies | language | power

Target 27:3 pp. 387–405 | article

Zhang, Meifang, Hanting Pan, Yao Li, Yue Sun, Shuyun Quan, Wenyu Wei, Yiming Zhi, Sien Zhou & Min-Hsiu Liao 2015 语篇内外的机构权力: 澳门非典公告以及翻译案例研究 [Institutional power in and behind discourse]

Keywords: 语篇分析 | 翻译学研究 | 语言 | 权力

Target 27:3 | translation

Bowcher, Wendy L. 2014 Review of Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese: Descriptions and Applications edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson & William S. Armour (2013)

Functions of Language 21:2 pp. 259–265 | book review

Bowcher, Wendy L. 2014 Issues in developing unified systems for contextual Field and Mode

Functions of Language 21:2 pp. 176–209 | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.